Sergio Perales

Diego Jimenez

 

Using the same drawing tecnique as Katsushika Hokusai’s The Great Wave, Inka Essenhigh’s Blue Wave crests with sculptural solidity. Essenhigh deviates from the flat designs and enamel application of her early work. This painting shows the ferocity and nature of the ocean which is behind a all blue spectrum of color never leaving that color behind. The diffrent spaces pictures in this painting are all blue but the diffrence is made in the tone in which corresponds to each space such as the beachhed and the sloping of the waves which adopts a darker color, which is a tecnique used by Essenhigh to mark diffrences in height of the waves. Inka Essenhigh born 1969 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania and is an artist stationed in New Yrck City. Her artisitic work has been shown around the world incluiding the museum SMAK in Belgium and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her work has attracted many young artists especially in the 1990s and she has reamined as onw the most influential young artists in New Yorck City and she is slowly gaining acceptance in Europe.